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Maida Vale Studio 5 - London

1989-10-26 · United Kingdom · Studio · John Peel Session · more gigs in London

Circulating discs (17)

A Season in Hell Bootleg CD

(Banzai - BZBX 054)

  1. 3. Polly 2:39

Before We Ever Minded Bootleg CD

(Imperium - Imperium001)

  1. 8. Love Buzz 3:20
  2. 9. About a girl 2:41
  3. 10. Polly 2:40
  4. 11. Spank Thru 3:19

I can't Live Bootleg CD

  1. 5. Love Buzz 3:16
  2. 6. About a girl 2:39

In Memory of Kurdt Kobain Bootleg CD

(Small Clone - SC-NR-001)

  1. 12. Love Buzz 3:14
  2. 13. About a girl 2:40
  3. 14. Polly 2:34
  4. 18. Love Buzz 3:17
  5. 19. About a girl (mislabeled: Polly) 2:43
  6. 20. Polly 2:39

Into the Black Disc 5 & 6 Bootleg CD

  1. 7. Love Buzz 3:20
  2. 8. About a girl 2:42
  3. 9. Polly 2:40
  4. 10. Spank Thru 3:19

Loose Ends Bootleg CD

  1. 17. Love Buzz 3:22
  2. 18. About a girl 2:44
  3. 19. Polly 2:42
  4. 20. Spank Thru 3:20

Loose Ends 2006 Upgrade Bootleg CD

  1. 17. Love Buzz 3:22
  2. 18. About a girl 2:44
  3. 19. Polly 2:42
  4. 20. Spank Thru 3:20

Loose Ends 2007 Upgrade Bootleg CD

  1. 17. Love Buzz 3:22
  2. 18. About a girl 2:44
  3. 19. Polly 2:43
  4. 20. Spank Thru 3:21

Stiff Drinks Bootleg CD

  1. 21. About a girl 2:34

The complete Radio Sessions Bootleg CD

(Blue Moon Records - BMCD18)

  1. 1. Love Buzz 3:16
  2. 2. About a girl 2:39
  3. 3. Polly 2:37
  4. 4. Spank Thru 3:15

Turnaround Bootleg CD

(Stone pig records - NIR 23.001.80)

  1. 5. Love Buzz 3:16
  2. 6. About a girl 2:40
  3. 7. Polly 2:38
  4. 8. Spank Thru 3:16

Radio Sessions Tape

  1. 11. Love Buzz 3:19
  2. 12. About a girl 2:41
  3. 13. Polly 2:40
  4. 14. Spank Thru 3:16

The Basement Tape

  1. 1. Love Buzz 3:19
  2. 2. About a girl 2:42
  3. 3. Polly 2:39
  4. 4. Spank Thru 3:18

Nirvana Demos OK Let's Rock Bootleg LP

(lp - lp)

  1. 1. Love Buzz
  2. 2. About a girl
  3. 3. Polly
  4. 4. Spank Thru

Wipeout Bootleg LP

(Big Wave Records - lp)

  1. 1. Spank Thru
  2. 2. About a girl
  3. 3. Love Buzz
  4. 4. Polly

John Peel One/Two Bootleg Single SBD

(BBC Recordings '91 - P.U.N.K.-1)

  1. 1. Love Buzz
  2. 2. About a girl
  3. 1. Polly
  4. 2. Spank Thru (mislabeled: Heartbreak)

John Peel Sessions Bootleg Single

  1. 1. Love Buzz
  2. 2. About a girl
  3. 3. Polly
  4. 4. Spank Thru

Notes & circulating recordings

Set
Love Buzz • About A Girl • Polly • Spank Thru

Circulating Recordings
soundboard audio
15 min • A+
Also available on various bootleg CD and vinyl releases.
Producer: Dale Griffin
Engineer: Ted de Bono

Band members: Kurt Cobain (vocals, guitar), Krist Novoselic (bass), & Chad Channing (drums)

Recorded:
[U] About A Girl
[U] Love Buzz
[U] Polly
[U] Spank Thru
Sources: The best source for this radio session is the Westwood CD 'In Concert', which contains a pre-FM version from the DAT master tapes. All bootleg releases (for example, as available on 'The Complete Radio Sessions') are inferior, being taken from post-FM radio broadcasts.

Notes: The band were fortunate enough to land a slot on the acclaimed John Peel Show, and recorded a session for broadcast. The first broadcast was on broadcast November 22nd 1989. There was a subsequent broadcast on January 22nd 1990. 'Spank Thru' was titled 'Spanx thru' on the official records. (22)

Producer, Dale Griffin remembers, "The first Nirvana session was very relaxed. Kurt played and sang live. He looked young and fresh-faced." (33)

"The band was well rehearsed - all too often not the case with many bands, especially on the John Peel sessions - and we were soon into mixing the songs." (33)

Tracks were mixed onto quarter inch tape at 15ips (for broadcast and also onto DAT tape, for back-up). The session would have been recorded on a 2 inch analogue tape, running at 30ips with no Dolby. (33)

"These 2inch tapes were used over and over again for successive sessions, so none of the 'multi-track' (or unmixed) BBC recordings of Nirvana remain, sadly." (33)

All three Peel Sessions have been aired all over the world several times, notably including all three sessions consecutively by John Peel himself in 1994